Ashland Deport Hotel c1890
The south wing is the one-story section
Fruit Vendors in Front of Hotel c1910
22 September 2006

Vintage Photos from NRHP Nomination
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National Register #91000047
South Wing of Ashland Depot Hotel
624 A Street
Ashland
Built 1887

This building was originally the kitchen wing of the massive, three-story Ashland Depot Hotel.

When the hotel was demolished in 1937, the wood-frame South Wing was remodeled to serve as Ashland's
railroad depot. When rail passenger service ended in the Rogue River Valley in 1955,
the building endured as a freight depot until Southern Pacific left Ashland in 1985, and
the building was vacated.

In 1990, the building was moved across A Street to its current location
and renovated by a local restoration contractor.

Buildings that Moved

It's not just that the people of the American West are restless, the buildings themselves sometimes pack up and
move when - for one reason or another - the neighborhood no longer suits them or the neighbors no longer want them
or opportunity waits down the road.

And when buildings remain in place, they are often searching for their identities.

Of the buildings and structures we have visited, the original Reno Arch
holds the record for number of moves. It has been moved five times since it was built in 1926.

Jax Truckee Diner holds the distance title. The
building moved from New Jersry to Pennsylvanis in 1948, then from Pennsylvania to Califonia in 1992.

Probably the most ambitious relocation occurred on July 4th 1904, when the Southern Pacific Railroad
loaded most of the town of Wadsworth, Nevada, onto rail cars and
transported the town thirty miles west to create
a new town which became known as Sparks.